Advancing climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa

In different sub-Saharan Africa countries, global or sectoral initiatives are being implemented to mitigate climate change direct and indirect impacts. For these countries, climate change could induce development dynamics alteration, social inequalities and disparities amplification, social and economic development structural difficulties intensification, an alteration of development achievements and multiple institutional et political regressions. The fragilities of sub-Saharan Africa countries relating to climate change require the acceleration of resilience actions to reduce the risks of economic, social, environmental, institutional and political crises that could result from the impacts of climate change.In this article, the ClimResilience scientific framework was used to develop the Acra (African climate resilience acceleration) Roadmap, a scientific tool to accelerate the achievement of national climate resilience configurations in sub-Saharan Africa. It includes new scientific contributions for sub-Saharan Africa countries climate change resilience. They are a resilience approach based on planned resilience progress, multidimensional climate change impacts corpuses, multidimensional climate change vulnerability factors corpuses, multidimensional climate change resilience solution corpuses, a subdivision of climate resilience trajectories into segments of resilience trajectories. Specifically, the Acra Roadmap is an innovative decision-making tool for formulating, planning and achieving specific climate change resilience progress. For sub-Saharan Africa countries, the Acra Roadmap is an inclusive and participatory tool for innovating climate change resilience policies and practices by implementing the concepts of residual impacts and vulnerabilities, resilience trajectory, resilience horizons, resilience configurations and resilience markers